Team

Joseph Braude

Advisor

Joseph Braude, an author, broadcaster, and Middle East specialist, serves as an advisor on the Center’s initiatives and contributes research to Al-Mesbar’s publications. Braude studied Near Eastern languages at Yale and Arabic and Islamic history at Princeton, and is fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew. His first book, The New Iraq (Basic Books, 2003), explores Iraq’s prospects for renewal in light of its history and culture. His second book, The Honored Dead (Random House, 2011), examines the challenge of Arab police reform by narrating his experiences as a researcher embedded with the Moroccan police in Casablanca.